DEFENSE SPENDING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN AN OIL-RICH COUNTRY The Case of Saudi Arabia
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The causation relationship between economic growth and military expenditures in developing countries has received growing focus in recent years. One of the arguments in this field is that military spending absorbs a significant proportion of the limited financial resources in LDCs. The present study examines the causal relation in two models: defense spending with total real economic growth and defense spending with non-oil real growth, in the case of an oil-rich country, Saudi Arabia, for the period 1970-2003. Using Johansen’s cointegration procedure, VECM, and standard Granger causality, the study showed the existence of bi-directional causality between economic growth and defense spending, and a uni-directional causality running from non-oil economic growth to defense spending. Moreover, the dynamic effect of one variable on the other beyond the sample period was assessed.
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